I. Stage models. The invention-diffusion framework : anthropologists and the study of cultural change -- The stage framework : sociologists and the study of social change. II. Linear models. The ...

Education cannot adopt the linear model of scaling used by the medical sciences. "Gold standards" cannot be replicated without considering process-in-learning, diversity, and student-variedness in ...

We all know that great innovations fail. A large reason for failure is because the innovation never reaches the point on the innovation curve beyond innovators and early adopters in the diffusion of ...

“When I come here, they know me,” says Mary Febus, a severe chronic asthma patient, of the Family Physicians Group in Kissimmee, Florida. For years, Febus was a victim of inadequate, poorly ...

The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (the Innovation Center) initiated the IAP in July 2014 to provide targeted support and resources to states ...

We model the development of the market area around a newly opened retailer in terms of the diffusion of individual consumer adoptions across time and space. The large number of such events in an ...